Down a Dark Stairwell (2020)

Directed by

Ursula Liang

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about the 2014 police shooting of Akai Gurley in a New York City housing project stairwell. It examines the events that led to the shooting and the legal case that followed.

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What happens

Down a Dark Stairwell is a 2020 documentary about the 2014 shooting of Akai Gurley in New York City produced by the film production company Noncompliant Films and directed by Ursula Liang. The documentary made its debut broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens on April 12, 2021. It was later broadcast on the Criterion Channel and distributed by Kino Lorber on their streaming platform and Kanopy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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